A20 Pro vs A10 Fusion

We compared the 6-core Apple A20 Pro (Apple A20 Pro GPU) with the older 4-core A10 Fusion (PowerVR GT7600) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Apple A20 Pro
  • Performs 11.6x better in floating-point computations
  • Has a smaller size transistor (2 versus 16 nm)
  • Supports 673% higher memory bandwidth (115.2 against 14.9 GB/s)
  • Shows significantly better (up to 6.6x) AnTuTu 11 score – 3434K vs 516K
  • Higher GPU frequency (~2.5x)
  • 111% higher CPU clock speed (4930 vs 2340 MHz)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
A20 Pro +564%
3434654
516981
CPU 879839 202669
GPU 1407166 63274
Memory 418755 84317
UX 728894 166721
Total score 3434654 516981
Samples Less than 3 Less than 3

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
A20 Pro +437%
4733
Multi-Core Score
A20 Pro +765%
12836
1484
Asset compression - 57.7 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser - 38.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer - 44.8 Mpixels/sec
Image detection - 14.2 images/sec
HDR - 56.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur - 4.38 images/sec
Photo processing - 13.5 images/sec
Ray tracing - 1.7 Mpixels/sec
Samples - 4 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
A20 Pro +1397%
65153
4352
Background blur - 11 images/sec
Face detection - 9.32 images/sec
Horizon detection - 0.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection - 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur - 0.4 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching - 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching - 10.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics - 415.5 FPS
API - Metal
Samples - 2 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
4263
Score 4263 -
3DMark Solar Bay
17850
Score 17850 -
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
A20 Pro +1202%
9024
Score 9024 693
Stability - 85%
Graphics test - 4 FPS

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Apple A20 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-22 -> sammzzAnTuTu 113429537
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-19 (Bears lover)AnTuTu 113651257
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-14 -> LiberoGeekbench 6 CPU4739 / 12815
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-14 -> LiberoGeekbench 6 CPU4738 / 12831
πŸ“˜ 2026-10-04 (zsc)Geekbench 7 CPU4047 / 11701
Apple A10 Fusion
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-23 (TeknoPiri)AnTuTu 11497446
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-15 (hellz1)Geekbench 6 GPU4352
πŸ“˜ 2024-02-21 (Cap1bara_tech)Geekbench 6 CPU882 / 1484

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of A20 Pro and A10 Fusion

CPU

Architecture 2x 4.93 GHz –
4x 2.64 GHz –
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane
2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Cores 6 4
Frequency 4930 MHz 2340 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.4-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 192 KB 64 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 3 MB
L3 cache - 4 MB
Process 2 nanometers 16 nanometers
Transistor count - 3.3 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) - 5 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Apple A20 Pro GPU PowerVR GT7600
Architecture Apple A GPU PowerVR Series7XT (Rogue)
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 650 MHz
Pipelines 7 6
Shading units 128 32
Total shaders 896 192
FLOPS 2903 Gigaflops 249.6 Gigaflops
Vulkan version - 1.1
OpenCL version - 1.2

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine No

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 1333 MHz
Bus 3x 32 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 115.2 Gb/s 14.9 Gb/s
Max size 12 GB 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type NVMe NVMe
Max display resolution - 2048 x 1536
Max camera resolution 3x 48MP 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
- H.264
- H.265
- VC-1
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Apple C2 Qualcomm MDM9645M
4G support - LTE Cat. 12
5G support Yes No
Download speed - Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed - Up to 100 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 5
Bluetooth 6.0 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced September 2026 September 2016
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1Y01 APL1W24
Successor - - Apple A20 Pro

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Rohit Arora September 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Single core by 20, multi by 25, gpu by 30% growth per annum from past 10 years
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Rohit Arora September 16, 2026 at 10:07 PM
25% per annum betterment for the past 10 years
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